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Cake day: July 17th, 2025

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  • He was socialistic, yes didn’t believe in party alignment, and yet even though he disagreed with them, and was critical of, he most likely voted JFK and confirmed his vote for Johnson the oogaboogey blue candidates.

    But that’s not what I was speaking on, and he was not speaking on blind party alignment in that quote, he is literally just calling out moderates. Rightly so, he still voted for them tho. ^



  • My personal neolib figure I give a vote to is Pritzker, who has signed legislation that made my changing my identification markers a 5 minute visit to the DMV, removed medical sign off for gender change on birth certificate, signed trans protections in healthcare, mandate transgender history to our state school curriculum, and hasn’t thrown us under the bus (publicly) yet, like Newsom (actually called Newsom and other Democrats out for doing so). That’s who I will be voting for in the primaries if they run.

    Yes he’s a billionaire. one of the enemies. Yes he wants a two state solution. But he at least is critical about Israel despite being Jewish himself and having received AIPAC funding no doubt. No, I’m not happy about these things, but on paper he’s not stupid enough to play centrist, like Newsom. Yea, swinging even more conservative will completely forfeit the election to the party he has called out for being the Nazis (he denies this now, but he has done it multiple times). So maybe it’s all talk.

    i’m actually trans, you telling me my vote doesn’t matter regarding today’s issues is like telling the people King spoke to that they shouldn’t fight for the vote because they are just seeking to participate in the rich white man’s game. Few protected rights I have in my state are because the evil neoliberal signed them into legislature. I can go get SRS if I wanted it and it is required for my Medicaid to cover it. How is this throwing trans people under the bus?

    I know fighting on this frontier may seem foolish to you. I know Pritzker is a billionaire politician giving a ton of lip service.

    I even consider the very possible reality that he may be saying these things because Dems have already locked in Newsom as the golden boy, and it doesn’t matter what Pritzker says because he’s just gonna run in the primaries to give the DNC the illusion of choice before he concedes to Newsom at the last minute, so it doesn’t matter what he says. (This is what I believe is likely happening).

    But, while I try and help my community locally where I can, (I’m disabled there’s not much but I try), I can afford to toss a stone in the direction that tells me it might bring some positivity, even if meaningful change doesn’t happen, because letting JD Vance win is so so so much worse.

    Yeah this sucks, but it’s what reasonable people are forced to do in this fucked up society.


  • Things that are authentically real are good.

    Things that look real that aren’t, but never try to convince you they are real, are fine and can be quite thoughtful. This is where suspension of disbelief comes into play for works of fiction.

    Something that looks real, presents itself as authentic, but isn’t… these things infuriate me because the context of it being real is often solely what would make it interesting.

    I appreciate digesting accurate information, I can suspend disbelief for tasteful media. I cannot entertain for a second 90% of the internet where content is constantly trying to present itself as authentic, and competes for attention, but is entirely scripted fiction.

    For me, how the information, story, or content presents itself is very important when consuming it.










  • In college, my friend used to have a whole day dedicated to when Wrestlemania and Nascar fell on the same day.

    We would start binge drinking at around 7am for left turns on Nascar, and were belligerently intoxicated for Wrestlemania.

    This includes being willing and able to be lifted up and put through an actual card table in half during Wrestlemania.

    Some of the most genuinely socially progressive people I met through this friend group.



  • Can I please say, why are we, the proletariat, even giving this controversy attention?

    We all watched how the Epstein files were released and not a single person is facing actual punishment from it.

    Macklemore is an opening act and is not why people were buying tickets for this tour. (Was he relevant? Did people really pay for this tour because of him? Now he’s got attention from Palestine sympathizers who might give him actual attention his next album).

    America is by and large apathetic to Gaza or doesn’t even know the conflict exists. Half of us don’t know what exists outside of our own communities.

    Macklemore gets a pat on the back for saying “what’s right.”, Sheeran gets a boost in ticket sales because now his tour over multiple stadiums, is plastered on the front page of every news aggregator. Live Nation makes bank off of everyone involved here.

    And Robert Kraft is probably cackling to the bank about how we are all eating out of the palm of his boss’s hands.

    With no one going after him, only Sheeran, the elite win again.

    For all I know, Macklemore and Sheeran were both powerless to their actual opinions on any of this.